Step One: Save the World - The Journey of a Water Protector

By DJ Rankin

This is a cookbook. This is an adventure novel. This is a love story. This is a tale of survival. This is a spiritual journey. This is a catalog of the oppressions and destructions perpetrated by the machine of mankind. This is a handbook on standing up to the tyranny enacted by a corrupt government through the mechanism of fear. This is a recruitment manual for a global movement of resistance fueled by love. We are winning. It is time to stand up. Enough is enough. Do what feels right.

Last winter I was called to Standing Rock to protect the water and my entire world was flipped upside down. I lived in the most amazing, love based, frozen tipi utopia, where I connected with the greatest human beings imaginable as I connected to myself and the universe through the ceremonies of the Lakota people, and through science. I was simultaneously exposed to not only the long list of evils unleashed on our species and planet in the name of money, but witnessed it first hand through a cloud of tear gas and militarized police. It was the greatest experience ever. I mean, I was grilling steaks in a forty below lightening blizzard. You should come over for dinner sometime.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DJ Rankin
• Release date: Sep 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370160990

DJ Rankin

As his handful of metafictional fans are already well aware, DJ’s hardly an author. Not an aspirer of wordsmithing fame but rather an adventurer intent on living a life worth writing about. In fact, it seems quite peculiar for his publishers to ask for an abridged biography when he’s proven time and again to be unable to whittle his word count once he gets going on his favorite subject.I mean, Stylish Transient is supposedly some great American novel but it’s just another washed up wannabe sitting around stroking his own pen. Then UnCage Eden is three times as long and half as good, his spiritual manifesto and coming of age story as he discovers himself and rejects most everything else about modern society. He takes a break from droning on about himself in his work of fiction based on himself, all the while searching for his own real life Liberation’s Garden. And for anyone who somehow still wants to know, more he spills out the entire ingredient list of what brought him to this page in his origin story, Step One: Save the World.Which brings me back to my point, what could I possibly come up with to say here that hasn’t been run further into the ground than his size seven corduroys? Yeah sure, so he’s some kind of hitchhiking protest chef who doesn't use money but instead keeps the fire, protects the water, builds the Earth and rides tornadoes, big deal, and maybe it’s all the elements of a great story except of course a decent author, but perhaps they’ll find someone to play him in the role of a lifetime movie about some idiot that thought anyone would ever read this mess.Other than that, he’s from Asheville NC, though now he carry’s his home wherever he goes, which is often organizing volunteers for UnSheltered Earth, which is perhaps why you’re here, it’s certainly not for the writing, so feel free to hit him up and please do whatever you can to distract him from trying to write another one of these masterpieces.

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